Writer, critic, literary journalist, poetry editor. Trained as language philosopher. Follow at POETRY/POETICS/LANGUAGE/COMMUNITY (https://xitter.cf/t.co/bPAJgjYgsM)
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To learn more about the ongoing dismantlement of the University at Buffalo Poetics Program visit: poeticsinexile.crd.co
Hilary Plum: "Elizabeth Koch writes (I am starting to think Elizabeth Koch writes like Ivanka Trump dresses) about how she’d like books she publishes to “bring attention to the false divisions that make up our world.”
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Wikipedia, which went online in January, 2001, is now the greatest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled. Yet in the last four years, it has lost 25 per cent of its traffic—more than a billion monthly visitors. Since the site recruits its editors from its audience, this dip also threatens its growth and quality. Many users have been intercepted by A.I. “It’s a cruelly ironic fate,” Julian Lucas writes. Wikipedia was the single most important training corpus in the history of artificial intelligence. Now artificial intelligence is threatening its survival. Read Lucas’s report on the future of Wikipedia: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
New York Times book critic Dwight Garner revisits Leslie Fiedler's "Love and Death in the American Novel" 66 years after its publication and finds it passes the test of time and then some.
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One important part of rethinking and redesigning the university.
I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
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As a longtime admirer of Dennis Tedlock's work, who was both the McNulty Professor and a founder of the Poetics program at Buffalo, this is rather sad news
Timothy Liu at St. Bonaventure, Doireann Ní Ghríofa at Canisius, and Deb Olin Unferth at Hallwalls headline this week's events in Western New York. And that's just on Tuesday...
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The dean wants to see "good behavior" on the part of the Poetics Program before it gets and new hires and a restoration of funding. What can "good behavior" possibly mean in this context? Does he want a program for "well behaved" poets that will genuflect to UB's Empire A.I.?
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual Irish poet and essayist, who writes in both English and Irish. She describes her work as “devoted to exploring how the past makes itself felt within the present."
Doireann Ní Ghríofa will present the 21st Annual Hassett Reading in the Canisius University Contemporary Writers Series on Tuesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center on the Canisius University Campus, 2001 Main Street in Buffalo.
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa will present the 21st Annual Hassett Reading in the Canisius University Contemporary Writers Series on Tuesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center on the Canisius University Campus, 2001 Main Street in Buffalo.
justbuffalo.org/doireann-ni-…
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Powerful and brilliant piece by Arundhati Roy on the dystopia of AI and what it’s already done to human beings. equator.org/articles/arundha…
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The @UBuffalo College of Arts and Sciences leadership may have been asleep at the wheel for the past few years but it's not too late for the new dean (and new president) to wake up and fix this mess. Just fill the empty Poetics chairs. Not hard, not complicated, not expensive.
UB Poetics was founded in 1991 & has since been a vital part of the English department & the broader poetry community. Recent administrative actions have placed the program in jeopardy. Please visit our site to read more about our efforts to save Poetics: poeticsinexile.crd.co
UB is implementing Empire A.I across the curriculum, but dismantling the UB Poetics Program, arguably one the most influential programs over the past half century in American poetry and certainly the leading program to focus on innovation and poetics as practice.
UB Poetics was founded in 1991 & has since been a vital part of the English department & the broader poetry community. Recent administrative actions have placed the program in jeopardy. Please visit our site to read more about our efforts to save Poetics: poeticsinexile.crd.co
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UB Poetics was founded in 1991 & has since been a vital part of the English department & the broader poetry community. Recent administrative actions have placed the program in jeopardy. Please visit our site to read more about our efforts to save Poetics: poeticsinexile.crd.co
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For the Poetry Foundation— “Breathing At the End on the World” — on Auden, Aalto, and a visit to Helsinki in the Dog Days
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Novelist Sigrid Nunez visits Buffalo on Wednesday for a talk in the Just Buffalo Literary Center BABEL Series.
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